CA1102625A - Lower guide for a sliding partition - Google Patents
Lower guide for a sliding partitionInfo
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
- A47K—SANITARY EQUIPMENT NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TOILET ACCESSORIES
- A47K3/00—Baths; Douches; Appurtenances therefor
- A47K3/28—Showers or bathing douches
- A47K3/30—Screens or collapsible cabinets for showers or baths
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
- E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
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- E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
- E05D—HINGES OR SUSPENSION DEVICES FOR DOORS, WINDOWS OR WINGS
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- E05D15/08—Suspension arrangements for wings for wings sliding horizontally more or less in their own plane consisting of two or more independent parts movable each in its own guides
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- E05—LOCKS; KEYS; WINDOW OR DOOR FITTINGS; SAFES
- E05Y—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES E05D AND E05F, RELATING TO CONSTRUCTION ELEMENTS, ELECTRIC CONTROL, POWER SUPPLY, POWER SIGNAL OR TRANSMISSION, USER INTERFACES, MOUNTING OR COUPLING, DETAILS, ACCESSORIES, AUXILIARY OPERATIONS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR, APPLICATION THEREOF
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Abstract
Abstract Lower guide for a sliding partition for bath and shower rooms with sliding doors suspended from above extending down into a guide slot of an elongated lower guide member open at the top and confined by two lateral guide walls and a bottom.
Pivotal means are provided for swinging the lateral guide wall outward about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out wall from its highest point to the bottom of the guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors and the bottom of the guide member. The pivotal guide wall is supported between lateral frame parts with pivot pins extend-ing into vertical slots in each end of the guide wall to permit raising it and then swinging it out. This permits ready cleaning of accumulated dirt in the slot without disassembly and reassembly of the elongated lower guide member.
Pivotal means are provided for swinging the lateral guide wall outward about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out wall from its highest point to the bottom of the guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors and the bottom of the guide member. The pivotal guide wall is supported between lateral frame parts with pivot pins extend-ing into vertical slots in each end of the guide wall to permit raising it and then swinging it out. This permits ready cleaning of accumulated dirt in the slot without disassembly and reassembly of the elongated lower guide member.
Description
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LOWER GUIDE FOR A SLIDING PARTITIO~ ~_ _ __ ~
Background o~ the Invention Field of the Invention ~
This invention relates to a lower gulde for a sliding partition~
especially ~or bath andjor shower roorns, with several sliding doors which are suspended from an upper guide rail and can be pushed together and apart in telescope fashion and which extend into not more than two guide slots of an elongated lower guide member open at the top and confined by tw~ guide walls and a bottom.
Description of the Prior Art A guide of this type wlth a single guide slot is knownifrom the German Published Non-Prosecuted Application 22 58 179. It is true that there is less danger of dlrt accumulating with a ~maller number of guide slots~ nevertheless dirt does accumulate after an extended period of time. I~ the sliding doors are to be swung out o~ the lower guide member laterally for cleaning a~ter an extended period of time, it is necessary with the de~ign according to German Published Non-Prosecuted Application ?2 58 179 to disassemble the lower guide member.
Summary o~ the Invention An object o~ the present invention is to provlde an elongatèd low r guide member which will permit swinging the sliding doors later-ally without having to disassemble the elongated lower guide member.
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s Wi-th the foregoin~ and other objects in view, there is provided i.n accorance with the inventi.on a sliding parti.tion for a wet ch~nber, particularly bath and shower roorns, wi-th sliding doors occupying parallel planes, which doors are suspended from an upper guide rail and c&n be pushed together'in a position of one doo.r behind the other door, and also pushed apart and which doors ex-tend down i.nto a guide slot open at the top and confined by an elongated lower guide member having two lateral guide walls and a bottom, pivotal means for swinging a lateral guide wall outwardly in the direction from the guide slot about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the s~lung~-out lateral guide wall measured from its highest point to the bottom of the lower guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom of the lower guide member, the swingir.g guide wall being supported between lateral frame parts with each lateral frame part having, coaxially with the swivel axis, a pivot pin, and, associated ~,~ith each end of the swinging guide wall, there is a vertically extending elongated hole into whicb the pivot pin pr~trudes and is in the upper end of the elong~
ated hole when the swinging guide wall is i.n the normal not swung-out position; and latch means being provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall frorn being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough ~or the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a slidlng partition for a wet charnber, particularly bath and shower roorns, with sliding doors occupying parallel planes, ~hich doors are , ~
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, suspended from an upper guide rail and can ~e pushe~ together in a ~osition of one door behind the other door and also pushed apart, and which doors extend down into a guide slo-t open at the top and confined by an elonga~ed lowe-i~ guide membex having two lateral guide walls and a botto~ pivotal means for swinging a lateral gu~de wall outwardly in the directlon from the guide slot about a horiz~ntal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out la-teral guide wall measured fro~ ts highest point to the bottom of the lo~1er guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom o~ the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom o~ the lower guide merllber, the swinring guide wall being su~ported between lateral frame parts; e~ch end of the s~inging guide wall carrying, coaxia1ly with the swivel axis, a pivot pin which pro-trudes into a vertically extending elongated hole in the corres- i ponding lateral frame part; and the pivot pin being in the lower end of the el~ngated hole in the not swv.ng-out position of the swinging guide wall, to pre~ent ~.he swinging guide ~all from being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough for the pivot pin to reach the upper end of the elongated hole.
Other ~eatures which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set fortn in the appended claims.
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~' ' ''1 ., . . . I, IL11)26Z5 Although the invention is illustrated and described herein ¦ as embodied in a lower guide for a sliding p~rti-tion, it is nevertheless not intended to ke limited to the details shown, . I since varlous modifications ma~ be made therein wit~out departi.ng ¦ from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range j of equivalents o~ the claims.
Brief Descriptlon of the Dr wings ~, The inventlon~ however~ together with additional o-~ects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the ~ollQwing description of specific embodiments when read in connection with . th~ accompanying drawings, in wh~ch:
; FIG. 1 shows a top view looking down onto the lower guide =ember, the sliding doors being indicated schematically, ~IG. 2 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line A-A, . FIG. 3 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line B-B, FIG~ 4 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line C-C, ' .
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line D-D, and FIG. 6 is a perspecti~e ~iew of the lower guide member.
Detailed Description of the In~ention :
: In a lower guide of the type indicated at the outset, at least .
one of the two guide walls can be swung outward about a hori-: zontal geometrical sw~vel axis. The distance between the slidin~ .
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hZ5 doors and the bottom of the guide sl~t is somewhat larger than the height of the highest portion of -the guide wall in the swung-¦
out positlon above the bottom. Preferably, ~nly a single guide slot ;s provided. Thls brings about the desirable advantage that the sliding doors can be swung to one side for ~nstance~
to clean them or to unhook khem from the upper guide rail, for the purpose for example, to replace panes.
It may also in some instances, be desirable to be able to swing two outer guide walls to make access ~rom both sides possible, or to be able, in a deslgn with kwo guide slots and a ~i.xed central guide wall, to swing the sliding doors out to both sides.
The hinged gulde wall is advantageously mounted between lateral frame parts o~ posts in such a manner that each lateral ~rame part has, coaxially with the axis of rotation ~r swivel axis, a pivot pin which protrudes into a vertically extending elong-ated hole in the associated end of the guide wall so that in the normal, not swung-out position, the pivot pin is located in the ùpper end o~ the elongated hole. ~ latch is provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall ~rom being swung out laterally as l~ng as it is not lifted up far enough to cause the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole. Wi-th this design~
unintentional swinging-out o~ the guide member is impossible.
Instead, the plvotal guide member must first be lifted by a small distance, to disengage the latch thereby making swinglng-out possible.
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~ The latch advantageously consists o~ each lateral frame part l:L'{3Z6Z5 having~ eccentrically to the pivot axis~ a latching pin~ which a hook attached to the corresponding end if the pivotal guide wall engages from above. This hook can be formed~ for instance, by milling out the end ~ace of the guide wall in the shape of a hook. ~ the guide wa~l is ~ai~ed, the pivot pin reaches the lower end o~ the elongated hole and the latching pin gets free o~ the hOokg so that it becomes possible to make the swing to the outside. The kinematic inverse o~ the design described isg o~ course~ also possible, where the pivot pins and latching pins are not arranged in the lateral frame parts of partition posts but at the guide wall itsel~. m e operation is then the same .
Swinging the pivotal guide wall back to its normal position bring about a gap under it. This hinged or pivotal guide wall is advantageously arranged on the side of the wet room so th~t the water that has penetrated into the guide slot can be returned through the gap back into the wet room. Such a design is advan-tageously characteri~ed by the feature that the bottom of the guide sl~t is contin~ued outward or extended under the pivotal guide wall and is inclined ~rom the guide slot ~utwardly~ so that the water runs of~ toward the wet space. "Outward" refers here to the guide mam~er. With respect to the sliding partitlon~
the wet room side is the inside.
An advantageous emobodiment e~ample of the invention is shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 1 - 6.
: .' Referring to the drawings, a lower guide member 2 has two lateral guide walls 4 and 6, which con-~'ine a single guide slot 7 l~t~2~Z5 l l between them. Three sliding doors 8, 1~ and 12 are suspended ~rom an upper guide rail, not shown (FIG.l). At the bottom~
these sliding doors carry, via connecting pieces 14~ 16 and 1~, 1 spacers, b~ which they are guided at each other and at the guide walls ~ and 6, respecti~ely.
The inner sliding door 8 carries at one end a spacer 20 which rests against the inside surfaces 22 and 2~ of the guide walls 4 and 6 in a sliding relationship (~IGS.l, 5). In FIGS. 3 and 4, the spacers 28 and 32 which lie behind the cross section plane, are indicated by dashed lines.
At the other end, th~ lnner sliding door 8 which is ad~acent to the wet room 26, carries a smaller spacer 28 which rests on the one hand against the inside surface 22 of the guide wall 4 and on the other hand, against the connecting piece 16 of the middle sliding door 10 (FIGS 1, 4). The middle sl~ding door 10 carries at one end a spacer 30 which rests against the connecting piece 14 o~ the inner sliding door 8 and, against the inside surface 24 of the guide wall 6 in a sliding relationship.
At its other end, the middle slid~ng door 10 carries a spacer 32 which rests against the inner sur~ace 22 of the guide wall ~ and agàinst the connecting piece 18 of the outer (as referred to the wet room 26) sliding door 12 (FIGS. 1, 3). The outer sliding door 12, finally~ carries at its one end a spacer 34 which rests against the connecting piece 16 of the middle sliding door 10 and against the inner surf~ce 24 o~ the guide wall 6. At its other end, the outer sliding door 12 carries a spacer 36 which -6- ~
ll j26~5 rests against the inner surface 22 of the guide wall 4 and a~ainst the inner surface 24 of the guide wall 6 (FIGS. 1, 2).
The three sliding doors 8, 10 and 12 are guided in the single guide slot 7 by the six spacers 20~ 28~ 30, 32, 34 and 36 m e two guide walls 4 and 6 are mounted between la~eral ~rame-parts 38 and 40 (FIG. 1). These lateral frame parts 38, 40 each carry a pivot pin 42 (FIGS. 2, 6). Further up and slightly displaced in the direction of the guide slot 7, each lateral frame part also has a latching pin 44. A vertical elongated hole 45 which is associated with a pivot pin 42, is arranged in ~he end face o~ the end oP the guide wall 4, adjacent to a lateral frame part 38, 40.: In addition, the surface associated with a lateral frame part 38, 40 of the end of the guide wall 4 ha~
a hook-shaped cutout 46 which leaves a hook 48. . .
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: If the guide wall 4 is li~ted somewhat~ the elongated hole 45 : slides o~er the pi~ot pin 42 until the latter is located in the lower end o~ the elongated hole 45. The latching pin 44 then sits in the cutout 46 in its lower, open part so that the hook 48 no longer extends over this latching pin. The guide wall 4 :~ can then be swung into the position 50, indicated by dashed . lines (FIG. 2). In this positlon, the distance a between the : sliding doors (i.e., in the design shown, between the spacers : 20, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36) and the bo~om o~ the guide slot 7 is larger than the distance h between the highest portlon 54 of .
¦~ the guide w 1 4 in the position 50, shown in dotted lines.
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The sliding doors 8~ 10 and 12 can there~ore be swung out with- i out being impeded by the guide wall 4.
Between the bottom 52 of the guide slot on the one hand and the guide wall 4 on the other hand, there is a gap 56. m rough this gap, water that has penetrated into the guide slot 7 can flow off toward the wet room 26 via the bottom 52 which is inclinded toward the wet room side 26.
For production and installation reasons, it is desirable to terminate the pivotal guide wall 4 on both sldes by a plate 60 which c~n be screwed on and in which the elongated hole 45 and the cutout 46 as well as the hook 48 are located (FIG.6 ) ~
Similarly, a support plate :which carries the pivot pin 42 and the latching pin 443 is inserted into the lateral frame parts 38, 40 and fastened by means of a screw connection.
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LOWER GUIDE FOR A SLIDING PARTITIO~ ~_ _ __ ~
Background o~ the Invention Field of the Invention ~
This invention relates to a lower gulde for a sliding partition~
especially ~or bath andjor shower roorns, with several sliding doors which are suspended from an upper guide rail and can be pushed together and apart in telescope fashion and which extend into not more than two guide slots of an elongated lower guide member open at the top and confined by tw~ guide walls and a bottom.
Description of the Prior Art A guide of this type wlth a single guide slot is knownifrom the German Published Non-Prosecuted Application 22 58 179. It is true that there is less danger of dlrt accumulating with a ~maller number of guide slots~ nevertheless dirt does accumulate after an extended period of time. I~ the sliding doors are to be swung out o~ the lower guide member laterally for cleaning a~ter an extended period of time, it is necessary with the de~ign according to German Published Non-Prosecuted Application ?2 58 179 to disassemble the lower guide member.
Summary o~ the Invention An object o~ the present invention is to provlde an elongatèd low r guide member which will permit swinging the sliding doors later-ally without having to disassemble the elongated lower guide member.
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s Wi-th the foregoin~ and other objects in view, there is provided i.n accorance with the inventi.on a sliding parti.tion for a wet ch~nber, particularly bath and shower roorns, wi-th sliding doors occupying parallel planes, which doors are suspended from an upper guide rail and c&n be pushed together'in a position of one doo.r behind the other door, and also pushed apart and which doors ex-tend down i.nto a guide slot open at the top and confined by an elongated lower guide member having two lateral guide walls and a bottom, pivotal means for swinging a lateral guide wall outwardly in the direction from the guide slot about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the s~lung~-out lateral guide wall measured from its highest point to the bottom of the lower guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom of the lower guide member, the swingir.g guide wall being supported between lateral frame parts with each lateral frame part having, coaxially with the swivel axis, a pivot pin, and, associated ~,~ith each end of the swinging guide wall, there is a vertically extending elongated hole into whicb the pivot pin pr~trudes and is in the upper end of the elong~
ated hole when the swinging guide wall is i.n the normal not swung-out position; and latch means being provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall frorn being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough ~or the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole.
In accordance with the invention, there is provided a slidlng partition for a wet charnber, particularly bath and shower roorns, with sliding doors occupying parallel planes, ~hich doors are , ~
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, suspended from an upper guide rail and can ~e pushe~ together in a ~osition of one door behind the other door and also pushed apart, and which doors extend down into a guide slo-t open at the top and confined by an elonga~ed lowe-i~ guide membex having two lateral guide walls and a botto~ pivotal means for swinging a lateral gu~de wall outwardly in the directlon from the guide slot about a horiz~ntal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out la-teral guide wall measured fro~ ts highest point to the bottom of the lo~1er guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom o~ the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom o~ the lower guide merllber, the swinring guide wall being su~ported between lateral frame parts; e~ch end of the s~inging guide wall carrying, coaxia1ly with the swivel axis, a pivot pin which pro-trudes into a vertically extending elongated hole in the corres- i ponding lateral frame part; and the pivot pin being in the lower end of the el~ngated hole in the not swv.ng-out position of the swinging guide wall, to pre~ent ~.he swinging guide ~all from being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough for the pivot pin to reach the upper end of the elongated hole.
Other ~eatures which are considered as characteristic for the invention are set fortn in the appended claims.
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~' ' ''1 ., . . . I, IL11)26Z5 Although the invention is illustrated and described herein ¦ as embodied in a lower guide for a sliding p~rti-tion, it is nevertheless not intended to ke limited to the details shown, . I since varlous modifications ma~ be made therein wit~out departi.ng ¦ from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range j of equivalents o~ the claims.
Brief Descriptlon of the Dr wings ~, The inventlon~ however~ together with additional o-~ects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the ~ollQwing description of specific embodiments when read in connection with . th~ accompanying drawings, in wh~ch:
; FIG. 1 shows a top view looking down onto the lower guide =ember, the sliding doors being indicated schematically, ~IG. 2 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line A-A, . FIG. 3 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line B-B, FIG~ 4 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line C-C, ' .
FIG. 5 is a sectional view of FIG. 1 taken along the line D-D, and FIG. 6 is a perspecti~e ~iew of the lower guide member.
Detailed Description of the In~ention :
: In a lower guide of the type indicated at the outset, at least .
one of the two guide walls can be swung outward about a hori-: zontal geometrical sw~vel axis. The distance between the slidin~ .
'~
. , . .
hZ5 doors and the bottom of the guide sl~t is somewhat larger than the height of the highest portion of -the guide wall in the swung-¦
out positlon above the bottom. Preferably, ~nly a single guide slot ;s provided. Thls brings about the desirable advantage that the sliding doors can be swung to one side for ~nstance~
to clean them or to unhook khem from the upper guide rail, for the purpose for example, to replace panes.
It may also in some instances, be desirable to be able to swing two outer guide walls to make access ~rom both sides possible, or to be able, in a deslgn with kwo guide slots and a ~i.xed central guide wall, to swing the sliding doors out to both sides.
The hinged gulde wall is advantageously mounted between lateral frame parts o~ posts in such a manner that each lateral ~rame part has, coaxially with the axis of rotation ~r swivel axis, a pivot pin which protrudes into a vertically extending elong-ated hole in the associated end of the guide wall so that in the normal, not swung-out position, the pivot pin is located in the ùpper end o~ the elongated hole. ~ latch is provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall ~rom being swung out laterally as l~ng as it is not lifted up far enough to cause the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole. Wi-th this design~
unintentional swinging-out o~ the guide member is impossible.
Instead, the plvotal guide member must first be lifted by a small distance, to disengage the latch thereby making swinglng-out possible.
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~ The latch advantageously consists o~ each lateral frame part l:L'{3Z6Z5 having~ eccentrically to the pivot axis~ a latching pin~ which a hook attached to the corresponding end if the pivotal guide wall engages from above. This hook can be formed~ for instance, by milling out the end ~ace of the guide wall in the shape of a hook. ~ the guide wa~l is ~ai~ed, the pivot pin reaches the lower end o~ the elongated hole and the latching pin gets free o~ the hOokg so that it becomes possible to make the swing to the outside. The kinematic inverse o~ the design described isg o~ course~ also possible, where the pivot pins and latching pins are not arranged in the lateral frame parts of partition posts but at the guide wall itsel~. m e operation is then the same .
Swinging the pivotal guide wall back to its normal position bring about a gap under it. This hinged or pivotal guide wall is advantageously arranged on the side of the wet room so th~t the water that has penetrated into the guide slot can be returned through the gap back into the wet room. Such a design is advan-tageously characteri~ed by the feature that the bottom of the guide sl~t is contin~ued outward or extended under the pivotal guide wall and is inclined ~rom the guide slot ~utwardly~ so that the water runs of~ toward the wet space. "Outward" refers here to the guide mam~er. With respect to the sliding partitlon~
the wet room side is the inside.
An advantageous emobodiment e~ample of the invention is shown diagrammatically in FIGS. 1 - 6.
: .' Referring to the drawings, a lower guide member 2 has two lateral guide walls 4 and 6, which con-~'ine a single guide slot 7 l~t~2~Z5 l l between them. Three sliding doors 8, 1~ and 12 are suspended ~rom an upper guide rail, not shown (FIG.l). At the bottom~
these sliding doors carry, via connecting pieces 14~ 16 and 1~, 1 spacers, b~ which they are guided at each other and at the guide walls ~ and 6, respecti~ely.
The inner sliding door 8 carries at one end a spacer 20 which rests against the inside surfaces 22 and 2~ of the guide walls 4 and 6 in a sliding relationship (~IGS.l, 5). In FIGS. 3 and 4, the spacers 28 and 32 which lie behind the cross section plane, are indicated by dashed lines.
At the other end, th~ lnner sliding door 8 which is ad~acent to the wet room 26, carries a smaller spacer 28 which rests on the one hand against the inside surface 22 of the guide wall 4 and on the other hand, against the connecting piece 16 of the middle sliding door 10 (FIGS 1, 4). The middle sl~ding door 10 carries at one end a spacer 30 which rests against the connecting piece 14 o~ the inner sliding door 8 and, against the inside surface 24 of the guide wall 6 in a sliding relationship.
At its other end, the middle slid~ng door 10 carries a spacer 32 which rests against the inner sur~ace 22 of the guide wall ~ and agàinst the connecting piece 18 of the outer (as referred to the wet room 26) sliding door 12 (FIGS. 1, 3). The outer sliding door 12, finally~ carries at its one end a spacer 34 which rests against the connecting piece 16 of the middle sliding door 10 and against the inner surf~ce 24 o~ the guide wall 6. At its other end, the outer sliding door 12 carries a spacer 36 which -6- ~
ll j26~5 rests against the inner surface 22 of the guide wall 4 and a~ainst the inner surface 24 of the guide wall 6 (FIGS. 1, 2).
The three sliding doors 8, 10 and 12 are guided in the single guide slot 7 by the six spacers 20~ 28~ 30, 32, 34 and 36 m e two guide walls 4 and 6 are mounted between la~eral ~rame-parts 38 and 40 (FIG. 1). These lateral frame parts 38, 40 each carry a pivot pin 42 (FIGS. 2, 6). Further up and slightly displaced in the direction of the guide slot 7, each lateral frame part also has a latching pin 44. A vertical elongated hole 45 which is associated with a pivot pin 42, is arranged in ~he end face o~ the end oP the guide wall 4, adjacent to a lateral frame part 38, 40.: In addition, the surface associated with a lateral frame part 38, 40 of the end of the guide wall 4 ha~
a hook-shaped cutout 46 which leaves a hook 48. . .
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: If the guide wall 4 is li~ted somewhat~ the elongated hole 45 : slides o~er the pi~ot pin 42 until the latter is located in the lower end o~ the elongated hole 45. The latching pin 44 then sits in the cutout 46 in its lower, open part so that the hook 48 no longer extends over this latching pin. The guide wall 4 :~ can then be swung into the position 50, indicated by dashed . lines (FIG. 2). In this positlon, the distance a between the : sliding doors (i.e., in the design shown, between the spacers : 20, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36) and the bo~om o~ the guide slot 7 is larger than the distance h between the highest portlon 54 of .
¦~ the guide w 1 4 in the position 50, shown in dotted lines.
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The sliding doors 8~ 10 and 12 can there~ore be swung out with- i out being impeded by the guide wall 4.
Between the bottom 52 of the guide slot on the one hand and the guide wall 4 on the other hand, there is a gap 56. m rough this gap, water that has penetrated into the guide slot 7 can flow off toward the wet room 26 via the bottom 52 which is inclinded toward the wet room side 26.
For production and installation reasons, it is desirable to terminate the pivotal guide wall 4 on both sldes by a plate 60 which c~n be screwed on and in which the elongated hole 45 and the cutout 46 as well as the hook 48 are located (FIG.6 ) ~
Similarly, a support plate :which carries the pivot pin 42 and the latching pin 443 is inserted into the lateral frame parts 38, 40 and fastened by means of a screw connection.
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Claims (5)
1. A sliding partition for a wet chamber, particularly bath and shower rooms with sliding doors occupying parallel planes, which doors are suspended from an upper guide rail and can be pushed together in a position of one door behind the other door, and also pushed apart and which doors extend down into a guide slot open at the top and confined by an elongated lower guide member having two lateral guide walls and a bottom, pivotal means for swinging a lateral guide wall outwardly in the direction from the guide slot about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out lateral guide wall measured from its highest point to the bottom of the lower guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom of the lower guide member, the swinging guide wall being supported between lateral frame parts with each lateral frame part having, coaxially with the swivel axis, a pivot pin, and, associated with each end of the swinging guide wall, there is a vertically extending elongated hole into which the pivot pin pro-trudes and is in the upper end of the elongated hole when the swinging guide wall is in the normal not swung-out position; and latch means being provided to prevent the pivotal guide wall from being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough for the pivot pin to reach the lower end of the elongated hole.
2. A sliding partition for a wet chamber, particularly bath and shower rooms, with sliding doors occupying parallel planes, which doors are suspended from an upper guide rail and can be pushed together in a position of one door behind the other door and also pushed apart, and which doors extend down into a guide slot open at the top and confined by an elongated lower guide member having two lateral guide walls and a bottom, pivotal means for swinging a lateral guide wall outwardly in the direction from the guide slot about a horizontal swivel axis with the height of the swung-out lateral guide wall measured from its highest point to the bottom of the lower guide member smaller than the distance between the bottom of the doors extending into the guide slot and the bottom of the lower guide member, the swinging guide wall being supported between lateral frame parts; each end of the swinging guide wall carrying, coaxially with the swivel axis, a pivot pin which protrudes into a vertically extending elongated hole in the corresponding lateral frame part; and the pivot pin being in the lower end of the elongated hole in the not swung-out position of the swinging guide wall, to prevent the swinging guide wall from being swung out sideways until it is raised far enough for the pivot pin to reach the upper end of the elongated hole.
3. A sliding partition according to claim 2, wherein each said lateral frame part carries, eccentrically to the swivel axis, a latching pin which is engaged from the top by a hook arranged at the corresponding end of the swinging guide wall.
4. A sliding partition according to claim 2, wherein each end of said swinging guide wall carries, eccentrically to the swivel axis, a latching pin, which is engaged from below by a hook attached to the corresponding frame part.
5. A sliding partition according to claim 1, wherein the bottom of the lower guide member extends outwardly under the swinging guide wall with the bottom of the swinging guide wall spaced from the bottom of the lower guide member to leave a gap therebetween and wherein the bottom of the lower guide member is inclined outwardly from the guide slot toward the wet chamber to permit water which has penetrated into the guide slot to flow through the gap into the wet chamber.
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| DE2747480A DE2747480C2 (en) | 1977-10-22 | 1977-10-22 | Lower guide for a sliding partition |
| DEP2747480.2 | 1977-10-22 |
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| CA1102625A true CA1102625A (en) | 1981-06-09 |
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| CA313,979A Expired CA1102625A (en) | 1977-10-22 | 1978-10-23 | Lower guide for a sliding partition |
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| US (1) | US4228560A (en) |
| EP (1) | EP0001612B1 (en) |
| BR (1) | BR7806918A (en) |
| CA (1) | CA1102625A (en) |
| DE (1) | DE2747480C2 (en) |
| ES (1) | ES245570Y (en) |
| HK (1) | HK76685A (en) |
| IE (1) | IE48052B1 (en) |
| IT (1) | IT1106201B (en) |
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| DE2747480C2 (en) | 1979-08-30 |
| US4228560A (en) | 1980-10-21 |
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| IE782091L (en) | 1979-04-22 |
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| IE48052B1 (en) | 1984-09-19 |
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